Tracy Anne Butler MD

Summary

• Dr. Tracy Butler is a neurologist/neuroscientist with clinical subspecialty training in behavioral neurology and epilepsy and research fellowship training in functional and structural neuroimaging. She is the medical director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII) where she oversees subject assessment and clinical trials of therapies and neuroimage biomarkers of aging and neurodegeneration. Her research uses multimodal positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR) neuroimaging and complementary methods to better understand the biological basis of neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and normal aging.
  
  Dr. Butler’s clinical work is limited to serving as the neurology and neuropsychiatry consultant to NewYork-Presbyterian Behavioral Health Center, diagnosing and treating hospitalized patients with severe psychiatric diseases who can sometimes fall between the cracks of psychiatry and neurology.